Welcome to the website of Kevan Manwaring

celebrated author

Skyros Writers' Lab (No. 1 of the World's Best Writing Holidays, The Guardian)

& tutor/workshop leader at

The Open University    Hawkwood College     Isbourne Holistic Centre   

Sky Arts Den - Bath Literature Festival 2012

'a fascinating insight into the quotidian psyche of a busy and successful writer'

Turning the Wheel review, Suite 101

Turning the Wheel: seasonal Britain on two wheels, (O Books 2011)

On two wheels and 900cc across Britain, Bard on a Bike Kevan Manwaring endeavours to search out the places and people who mark the seasons and cycles in their own special way - in rituals, ceremonies and festivals both private and public, large and intimate, ancient and modern. Along the way he experiences and relate moments of sacred time found in the unlikeliest of places and circumstances, showing how ‘sacred time’ is a state of mind that can be experienced not only at sacred sites, but in the everyday, in the familiar. A collection of reflections about being fully alive in the Twenty First century and all that means, as much a modern travelogue, Turning the Wheel is a wise and witty account of a leather-clad time-traveller. 

'Inspiring stuff' Phil Rickman, Phil the Shelf, BBC Radio Wales

Available from O Books here